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NEWS
Salisbury Cathedral
FRIENDS
Friends
EASTER 2020
Reference Coronavirus: see page 19
C oming back to Salisbury by road
there's a moment when the
cathedral appears (always on the
left) and you know you are nearly
home. People must have been
experiencing this since the building
of the cathedral began 800 years
ago. Cathedrals are remarkably
enduring and stable features of our
lives. It sometimes seems that
nothing has changed.
There was plenty in the recent
endured? But that is not true either.
Sarum Lights that showed this is just
One of the things I love about
not true. I could not read the script
English parish churches is the way in
projected on the west front at the
which there is something from every
start of the light show. I would not
generation collected within what
have understood the language of
Simon Jenkins calls “the museums of
services 800 years ago and the
England”. It is no less true of the
pattern of services would also have
cathedral. A spire was added. Many
been strange, with most if not all
of the side altars have gone. The
priests each celebrating daily Mass
bell tower came and went. There
at one of many altars. In the light
was a massive clear out at the end
show there was also a lot of recent
of the eighteenth century. For better
history - the first girls’ choir, woman
and for worse in the 1960s, a
Dean... and an extraordinary Pathe
beautiful choir screen was taken out
News film at the top of the spire
to make the remarkable and unusual
(from just after the War?) with a
connection between nave and choir
voice that represented an England
in what now feels like a single room
that already seems long since gone
for worship. Now three great
but which was of my childhood.
contemporary art commissions by
Maybe it is the people who have Elisabeth Frink, Gabriel Loire and
changed, but the building has William Pye interpret the building to
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us and our visitors. There have been fundamental, as is said by some events in the run up to the festive
functional additions of the refectory today about issues to do with our season, as well as in the early
and shop and more recently of Little understanding of what it is to be months of 2020.
Paradise. In reality, in this enduring human with regard to sexual We enjoyed the spectacular Sarum
building that points beyond itself to orientation and non-binary or trans Lights just before Lent and great
God and earth’s heaven, change has understandings of gender. things are planned for the rest of the
been constant. year. Details of the first six months
The genius of the Church is that
Perhaps that is the genius of the change happens. It is contested can be found in this edition.
Church? Very few secular institutions because faith and belief matter We marked Shrove Tuesday with
have this sort of longevity. It can deeply. That which is of God clarifies cathedral marketing officer Shane
seem as though nothing changes, but and is received, and becomes what Brennan running for us in St A section of window s26, which has been
in reality the Church has adapted we all think right because it helps us Thomas’s Pancake Race. He did us restored, in the glaziers’ workshop.
and changed progressively in ways to celebrate the divine in our lives. proud!
that later generations barely seem For this the cathedral in its the south nave aisle. A fitting use of
to notice. But that’s not true either. celebration of the Christian Gospel The Salisbury Florilegium Society income and donation derived from
Change in the life of the Church has has provided an enduring framework was formed in 2016 by local artists floral beauty!
cost blood. Just think of the since its foundation 800 years ago. Sally Pond and Nick Stiven following
This year we will celebrate our
Reformation or the English Civil War. an exhibition of work during our
In celebrating such a significant Friends’ 90th anniversary by holding
In our time the marriage of Friends’ Secret Gardens of the Close
anniversary, a dinner for 90 people on Friday 3rd
divorcees within the lifetime of a event.
For all that has been, Thanks. July in the cathedral refectory,
former partner and the ordination of The Society grew quickly and many following a fizz reception in the
To all that will be, Yes.
women to all three orders of of its members’ beautiful artworks south transept.
Dag Hammarskjold
ministry have become settled were exhibited on Secret Gardens
matters. Forty years ago they were The Rt Revd Nicholas Holtam, We have very special guests joining
day in the Medieval Hall, courtesy of
hotly contested and seemed Bishop of Salisbury us and look forward to an evening of
its owner, John Waddington.
fine dining in fabulous surroundings.
More than 100 of these artworks
Details of our dinner can be found in
were published in a book by the
From the Chairman Society and just before Christmas,
this newsletter and we look forward
Welcome to the Friends’ Easter to celebrating this milestone with
the Friends’ charity received a
newsletter for 2020, this special Friends and their guests.
cheque for £9,000 from the sales of
800th anniversary year, as we the books and many of the original The Friends have only two more
commemorate laying the foundation paintings. We are extremely grateful instalments to pay for the Little
stone of our wonderful cathedral. for this donation. Paradise development, which
The year is full of events and features store rooms, boiler house
The Friends’ council has decided to
experiences, as we celebrate the and the best cathedral toilets in the
add this amount to the income from
Friends’ 90th birthday as well. land!
our 2019 Secret Gardens event to
Since our Christmas newsletter, the meet the £20,000 cost of restoring Therefore, in 2022 we will make the
Friends’ charity has made a busy the beautiful stained glass window last of eight annual payments of
start to this year, holding popular s26, which will soon be reinstalled in £74,000 and be ready to raise funds
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for the next phase of major This year’s grants of £115,100 will need to honour and continue our get creative with your craft
improvements to our cathedral and ensure that we keep plenty of funds predecessors’ amazing work. It’s the skills?
its environs - the development of the in reserve for the major projects Dean’s 2020 Challenge.
• And yet another way might be to
south side of the cathedral, as that are planned. Exciting times Quite simply, I challenge each of our recall the hospitality that we all
outlined in the 2015 Masterplan. ahead: we will keep you advised. Friends to raise £90: £1 for each of associate with our cathedral.
I look forward to enlarging on this in Finally, please persuade a friend or our 90 years. This is a place where all are
our annual report Spire in a few relative to join the Friends’ charity. How might you rise to the challenge? welcome. Perhaps you might
months’ time. We will need more members if we gather friends (and Friends)
• One way might be to ponder the together, to drink tea, make
Thank you all for your continued are to make significant grants to the slogan that Salisbury has
support and generosity. cathedral for the projects that are music or share stories?
adopted for its anniversary year,
Last year we gave grants totalling soon to become a reality, enhancing ‘A City On The Move’. Our Whatever you choose to do, make
£189,000 to special projects our medieval masterpiece for the predecessors moved a cathedral sure you let us know! We can then
(especially the Father Willis organ future. Thank you. and built a city. Perhaps you tell other Friends and encourage
refurbishment) in our cathedral. Duncan Glass, Chairman could walk, or cycle, or push a their endeavours. And, however you
buggy to raise £90? raise your £90, what you raise will
be the precious fruit of your faith,
The Dean’s 2020 Challenge • Another way might be to skill and strength - and will support
respond to our Archbishops’ call
B y now I hope that all our Friends
will know that in 2020 we
celebrate the 800th anniversary of
that we should care better for
God’s creation. Perhaps you
our cathedral for the next 90 years,
the next 800 years - and beyond.
the re-foundation of the cathedral might sell plants, make jam, or Nick Papadopulos, Dean
on its present site. As I write, a
year-long and city-wide programme
Anniversary dinner Before ordination she was chief
of festivities has begun. The glorious
nursing officer in the Department of
spectacle of Sarum Lights was
enjoyed by thousands over the T he Friends are delighted to
announce that the VIP guest and
after dinner speaker at our 90th
Health and was made a Dame in
2005 for her contribution to nursing
February half-term week, and we
anniversary dinner on Friday 3rd July and midwifery.
are looking forward to everything
that is planned for the year. will be the Bishop of London, the Rt She trained for the ministry at the
them if at the same time we were Revd and Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally. South East Institute for Theologian
But…but…the 800 years that have
not thinking of the future. We Many of you will remember that Education and served her curacy in
elapsed since the foundation stones
worship in our beautiful cathedral Bishop Sarah was formerly Canon Southwark Diocese from 2001 to
were laid do not comprise the only
today because of their faith, skill, Treasurer of our cathedral and 2006.
anniversary that Salisbury Cathedral
celebrates this year. For in 2020 the and strength. Our beautiful Chapter representative on our For the following six years she was
cathedral may be 800 - but its cathedral still needs faith, skill, and Friends’ council. team rector at Sutton, also in
Friends are 90! strength: it needs our faith, strength Southwark Diocese, before coming to
Bishop Sarah sits in the House of
and skill. Salisbury Cathedral.
And while it’s wonderful to rejoice Lords as one of the Lords Spiritual, is
at the achievements of our So: here’s a way to bring together a member of the Privy Council and In 2015 she was made Bishop of
predecessors, we would be untrue to the Friends’ 90th birthday and the Dean of Her Majesty’s Chapels Royal. Crediton in the Diocese of Exeter
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“I could not have undertaken to The money raised last year is going
respond to this call if I had not been towards the restoration of the
a Canon Treasurer at Salisbury magnificent S26 window in the south
Cathedral and I am looking forward nave aisle of the cathedral.
to sharing with you my journey –
The gardens open this year will
including straight lines and square
include some new ones and there
corners!”
will be tea and homemade cakes
Friends’ chairman Duncan Glass said: available at South Canonry, the
“We are looking forward to hearing home of Bishop Nicholas and his
Bishop Sarah’s account of such a wife, Helen. Proceeds from the teas
The Bishop of London, the Rt Revd and Rt Hon meteoric rise to the top of the will go to the Sudan Medical Link.
Dame Sarah Mullally will be guest speaker at Anglican Church.
the Friends’ 90th anniversary dinner. Salisbury Florilegium Society members
“We were very sorry to see her leave will be exhibiting and selling their
and was installed as the 133rd Salisbury, but knew she was destined paintings in the Medieval Hall, and
Bishop of London at St Paul’s for high office.” visitors will also be able to buy their
Cathedral in May 2018. book, Secret Gardens of the Close.
The three-course dinner in the
The title of Bishop Sarah’s talk will be refectory will be preceded by a On Choristers’ Green there will be a
Straight Lines and Square Corners - drinks reception in the south number of plant stalls and cathedral
Canon Treasurer, a great preparation transept. Chichester Cathedral, one of the destinations
for the 133rd Bishop of London. of the April coach trip.
You will find a booking form for the
“Five Bishops of London have anniversary dinner with your The afternoon visit to Chichester
travelled from Salisbury, only one a newsletter. Please book early to Cathedral includes a tour of the
woman,” said Bishop Sarah. avoid disappointment. building and tea with the Chichester
Friends.
Forthcoming events
As the newsletter went to press
T his year it’s our 90th birthday
and we are in celebratory mood.
there were still a few places left on
the coach, so if you would like to
We have a host of events planned, go, please contact the office on
including our grand 90th anniversary 01722 335161 or 555190.
dinner in the cathedral refectory on Our fifth annual Secret Gardens of
Friday 3rd July (see previous article). the Close event takes place on
But before that, there’s our coach Sunday 24th May from 1pm to 5pm
James Bulpitt, who looks after one of the
trip on Wednesday 29th April to the smaller gardens, takes a moment to relax and with some stunning gardens on show.
Weald & Downland Living Museum enjoy his handiwork.
We are hoping for warm, sunny
and Chichester Cathedral. than 50 rural houses and buildings weather and a huge turn-out of Cathedral clerk of the works Gary Price will
The museum in the South Downs from the Anglo-Saxon period to the visitors to enable last year’s total of again be offering visitors the chance to have
National Park is made up of more Edwardian era. £9,000 to be beaten. a go at stone carving.
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clerk of the works Gary Price will be William de Wanda of why they
offering the chance to have a go at moved, as well as the record of the
stone-carving. Visitors will also be foundation ceremony.
able to join the Friends at the “After the 2020 exhibition the cases
Friends’ gazebo and purchase a range will be invaluable in allowing us to
of goods. display books and documents from
Volunteers are needed on the both the archive and the library at
afternoon to act as garden stewards many future events.”
to welcome visitors. As well as these grants, the sixth
If you can help, please contact the instalment (of eight) of £74,000 to
office on 01722 335161 or 555190. the Little Paradise project will be
paid and, for 2019/2020 only, the
• On Sunday 5th July a group of
grant made to Salisbury Cathedral
members will be setting off on the
Flowers will be raised from £3,000 to
Friends’ five-day holiday to
£5,000.
Derbyshire.
Council members have also agreed
Highlights include visits to Chatsworth £2,000 to fund the purchase of an A
s26, the stained glass window, which has
Friends assistant secretary Rosie Wilkinson House, Bolsover Castle, Hardwick Hall frame, which will be used to move
been refurbished thanks to a grant from the
welcomes visitors to the Friends’ gazebo. and Coventry Cathedral. Friends. Picture by Sam Kelly. the piano, and £5,000 for ten more
Grants heavy aluminium ladders to be used
Chapter House and £2,500 for
on the roof of the cathedral.
portable uplighters. Uplighters are
T here has been a great deal of
progress on the grants front in
the past few months.
used in the cathedral to enhance
exhibitions and during events.
The Friends’ council has agreed to Cathedral archivist and librarian
give £20,000 for the refurbishment Emily Naish said the display cases
of stained glass window s26 in the would be used in the Chapter House
south nave aisle. during 2020 to display a set of
documents to celebrate the 800th
The window was taken down and anniversary of the laying of the
transported to the glaziers’ Work to refurbish s26 gets underway in the
glazing workshop. Picture by Sam Kelly. cathedral’s foundation stones.
workshop last year.
“By means of text, images, and
Council members were able to see Salisbury Florilegium Society – documents from the cathedral
work in progress when they visited representing the sales of copies of its archive, the display will also touch
the workshop in February (see Secret Gardens of the Close book on how the move took place and
separate account of this visit). and a number of its original paintings medieval life,” she said. “Included
The £9,000 raised from the 2019 - will be put towards this project. will be the Register of St Osmund – a
Secret Gardens event, together with The Friends will also pay £6,600 for 13th century cartulary containing a Uplighters being used to enhance the Gaia
the £9,000 given to the Friends by two new display cases for the contemporary account by Dean exhibition in May 2019.
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Window s26 “We take it apart and lay it out – it’s window would be back in place in
like a jigsaw. Everything has to fit to the south aisle.
In February council members visited
the glaziers’ workshop to view
progress on the restoration of
the bar work.
“It is impurities that make bars rust,
He said that York Minster and
Canterbury Cathedral had lots of
window s26. so the more it is worked, the more stained glass.
The window, one of 12 by Clayton & impurities are worked out of the However, when Salisbury Cathedral
Bell, was erected by ‘grateful metal. was being built, the work was going
patients and friends’ in memory of “Nowadays it’s stainless steel that is more quickly than expected, so the
William Martin Coates in 1886. used – we cannot afford to have the windows had to be installed quickly.
The restoration is being funded by the bars blacksmith-made! This explains why there are more
Friends’ 2019 Secret Gardens event “Every light has at least a couple painted grisaille windows: these use
Glazier Tom Clarke shows council members
and the sales of Salisbury Florilegium Keith Millman and Dudley Heather the
of bars on it to hold it totally in clear glass with simple ornamental
Society’s books and paintings. materials and equipment he uses in the place.” non-figurative designs painted onto
Senior conservator Sam Kelly told restoration process. During the February visit Sam said them in black lines.
council members that action had that the window would be fixed in “Salisbury Cathedral has the biggest
been required as water had been blacksmithing was being done. Most March, so by the time members collection of grisaille windows in
pouring through the window. of the bar work of the nave windows received their newsletter, the Europe,” said Sam.
was 16th century.
“When we put up the scaffolding, we
discovered that the top was hanging However, the bars above the 16th Salisbury Florilegium Society
out,” he said. “It could have fallen century ones were medieval and this
out.” explained why water was pouring in:
in medieval times handmade
A magnificent £9,000 was raised
for the Friends by Salisbury
Florilegium Society in just two
He said that during the 16th century blacksmith’s nails would have been
a huge amount of glazing and months from the sales of its books
used and when these fail, the bars
and an online auction of a number of
that held the glass in place also fail,
its paintings.
letting in water.
Society members Sally Pond, Anne
Sam said that once the window was
Oaten and Nick Stiven presented a
removed to the workshop, two
giant cheque at a ceremony at the
rubbings were made of it. All the
Friends’ office just before Duncan Glass (second right), chairman of the
details of the work to be done were Friends of Salisbury Cathedral receives a
Christmas.
marked on the rubbings: the one on giant cheque from Salisbury Florilegium
brown paper was the working Sally said: “We are delighted with Society members Nick Stiven, Anne Oaten
document and the one on white the book sales to date and very and Sally Pond.
paper would be kept forever to pleased with the outcome of the
Friends’ chairman Duncan Glass paid
enable future glaziers to know what online auction.
tribute to society members for their
Senior conservator Sam Kelly explains the materials had been used. “We look forward to making further
process of restoring window s26 to council “inspiration, artistry and
members Michael Joseph, Duncan Glass and “After this is done, we strip the old donations to the cathedral in this its generosity”, and thanked them for
Valerie Shrubb. leadwork out and re-lead,” he said. 800th year.” making the Friends the beneficiary
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of the sales of the books and The society will be exhibiting and • The book, priced at £25, is
paintings. selling framed paintings at the available from a number of outlets
Medieval Hall during the Friends’ including the Friends’ office, Sarum
He said: “We are delighted to
Secret Gardens of the Close event College, and Salisbury Cathedral gift
announce that the £9,000 so kindly
on Sunday 24th May, at which the shop, as well as via the society’s
donated to us by the society is being
books will also be on sale. online shop.
put towards the restoration of a
prominent window in the cathedral. Friends’ Day 2020
“This window (for more details see
the article on grants) is one of the
treasures of our medieval The Secret Gardens of the Close book is
W e are looking forward to
welcoming everyone to Friends’
Day in this our 90th anniversary year.
launched at a ceremony at Sarum College.
masterpiece and will be appreciated
From left: Anne Oaten, Nadja Guggi, Nigel Due to Confluence, the flower
and admired by all for generations to Salisbury, Sally Pond, Nick Stiven and Duncan
come.” festival, taking place in the
Glass.
cathedral from 15th to 20th
He also thanked the Close residents September, Friends’ Day will be held
cost of designing and printing the
who have allowed the Friends to use earlier, on Saturday 5th September
books, and an online auction of the Christopher Somerville will be giving the
their gardens and who invited the in the north transept. Friends’ Day lecture.
original paintings was held.
artists to produce artworks from
their homes. It finished at the end of October We are delighted that journalist and “Mine is about talking to lots of
when the book, designed by Nadja author Christopher Somerville will people, the back-room boys and
Salisbury Florilegium Society was be giving the lecture. girls, from the Bishop to the Holy
founded by Sally and Nick in 2016 as Guggi and entitled Secret Gardens of
the Close, was launched at Sarum One of Britain’s most respected and Dusters,” he said.
a result of the Friends’ first Secret
Gardens of the Close afternoon. College. prolific travel writers, he is the “It’s trying to look at them with a
Since 2016, the 20 artists, many of author of Ships of Heaven – The travel writer’s eye and the eye of an
At the ceremony, attended by more
whom attend Sally’s botanical Private Life of Britain’s Cathedrals – ordinary punter distracted by the
than 80 people, Duncan thanked the
painting classes at Sarum College, and he has chosen this title for his scratches on the wall – the way the
society for its hard work and
have created a collection of 120 Friends’ Day lecture. ordinary person looks at a cathedral,
generosity on behalf of the Friends.
botanical paintings depicting the He also thanked former Friends’ It is the account of his walks across rather than the way an expert on
flowers, trees and plants from the trustee Nigel Salisbury for coming up Britain to tell the story of his favourite cathedrals does.”
‘secret’ gardens. with the idea of the Secret Gardens cathedrals – but not as a guidebook. Among the many people he met when
The paintings have been exhibited at event. “It’s a look at the human side of he visited Salisbury Cathedral were
the Medieval Hall during the Secret Sally said she had “a wonderful cathedrals,” said Christopher, who is Canon Treasurer Robert Titley (the
Gardens event and it was always team” and everyone had enjoyed the walking correspondent of The Friends’ representative on Chapter)
Sally’s aspiration that they should be working on the project. “It’s been Times and the author of 42 books and Friends’ membership secretary
incorporated into a book with the such fun,” she said. and hundreds of newspaper articles. and former trustee Dudley Heather,
profits going to the Friends for the who was his tower tour guide.
The auction raised £5,645, rising to Books about the architecture and
benefit of the cathedral. £6,445 by the end of December, with history of Britain’s cathedrals have He said: “I met a random selection
Society members raised nearly 41 pictures sold. Sales of 260 books been done and done very well, he of people. The meeters and greeters
£6,800 – about 95 per cent of the further boosted the funds. said. were a great bunch of people.
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“I thoroughly enjoyed myself.” “The personal histories on the the company’s workshops. During
plaques fascinate me.” their absence, visitors were able to
Christopher, who first visited
His highlights from his visit to tour the cathedral’s Pulling out the
Salisbury Cathedral as a boy, grew up
Stops exhibition and play a virtual
near Wells and now lives in Bristol. Salisbury Cathedral include the font
organ.
– “I love that”, the dedication of the
A teacher for ten years, he realised
Holy Dusters, the tomb with the By January this year everything was
“it was not a career for me” and
upraised fingers, and Dudley back in position ready for the final
began to write about walking in the
Heather. stage of voicing – the process by
late 1980s/early 1990s. which the pipes are made to sound
“Dudley organised us like an RAF
“It was a good time for travel as they did before their removal.
troop, he is a very striking guy,” he
journalism,” he said. At the end of January Andy Scott,
said. Andy Scott, head voicer at Harrison &
He has written extensively about head voicer from Harrison & Harrison.
“He told a great story about the
walks in Britain and Ireland, clocking Harrison, gave a talk in the
clerk of works changing the lightbulb
up more than 500 for the Times. cathedral entitled Voicing the Organ. they can play again. This is the
on the top of the spire.”
process of voicing.
“I try to cover at least one in each He gave a brief history of ‘Father’
The lecture, at 3pm, will follow the
county every year,” he said. Henry Willis’s career as an organ He described the differences
AGM at 2pm.
builder, and the times when between metal and wooden pipes,
He says he doesn’t remember why After the lecture, there will be Salisbury Cathedral’s organ had been and demonstrated the various sounds
he wanted to write a book on afternoon tea in the cloisters to cleaned and overhauled since Willis they make.
cathedrals - a natural interest, he include a big 90th birthday cake, built it in 1877.
ventures. He talked about the process of
followed by a short organ recital by
“It has a very distinct and clear adjusting the height of the mouth of
“Everywhere you go in the UK, the the organ scholar.
Willis voice, and we are keeping that a pipe, how a note starts and ends, a
cathedral draws your eye,” he said. The day will end with Evensong. fantastic Willis sound,” said Andy, voicer’s tools, and how voicers
“They are repositories of history, the A booking form for the lecture and who started as an apprentice with communicate – they don’t shout
arts and architecture. tea will be included in Spire. Harrison & Harrison in 1994. instructions to one another.
“Thirty organ builders worked on the “I will sound one blip for when I
Organ restoration organ before it came back here and want it louder (open it up and let
The Friends have contributed
the voicing takes eight weeks. more wind in) and two for softer,”
£106,000 to the project, thanks to a
S alisbury Cathedral’s Father Willis
organ will back in full voice on Easter
Day, a cause for great celebration.
bequest from a generous and long-
serving Friend.
“It’s our job to make sure the
cathedral is doing the right thing
he said.
“These are tiny adjustments and it’s
long-term. why we need it quiet in the
The £700,000 project to restore the The work has been carried out by
cathedral.”
organ began in January 2019 when it Harrison & Harrison, renowned organ “We have not changed anything; it’s
was completely dismantled. builders and restorers from Durham, all the original pipes. We have added He added that heating and humidity
who have cared for Salisbury’s organ one stop to the pedal organ.” “play havoc with an organ”.
It was 50 years ago that the 3,720-
since 1978. He explained that after cleaning and Andy began his four-year
pipe organ, built in 1877 at a cost of
£3,500, last underwent such a Some of the pipes were cleaned on restoration, the pipes needed apprenticeship aged 16. Voicing is
comprehensive restoration. site, with the remainder taken to careful testing and adjusting before taught at the end.
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years before being accepted for
ordination.
He did his training at Salisbury and
Wells Theological College, where he
met his wife, the Revd Jayne Tyrer.
They served their curacies in
Manchester Diocese before moving
to Carlisle Diocese, where Nigel
worked in a number of roles.
The Revd Pete Atkinson, minor canon for
His new responsibilities comprise young people.
supporting and strengthening the
Flashback to early 2019 and organ pipes are boxed ready for transporting to the company’s Diocese of Liverpool to serve his
cathedral community and supervising
workshops in Durham. curacy and being involved in a
arrangements for baptisms,
“But I went out tuning at 18,” said If you would like to make a marriages, funerals and interments project in St Helens to reach young
Andy, who has been with Harrison & donation towards the restoration of in the cathedral, working alongside people not connected to the church.
Harrison 25 years and is also a the organ, please make your the liturgy and music department. His new role involves overseeing the
church organist. cheque payable to Salisbury Dean Nicholas Papadopulos said: Sunday Club and working with
He said Salisbury Cathedral staff had Cathedral and send it to “Nigel is a gifted priest who will Cathedral School families and
created good conditions for a voicer Jilly Wright, development manager come to Salisbury after long years of others, encouraging them to
to work in, making his job a lot easier. at: Wyndham House, parish ministry with considerable participate in the cathedral’s
65 The Close, wisdom and skill in pastoral care.” worship, life and mission.
Assistant director of music John
Salisbury, SP1 2EN.
Challenger thanked everyone for Nigel said: “Salisbury has always had He is also responsible for the young
their donations to the project and Donations can also be made online a special place in my heart: Sarum people who meet in the Close,
for “putting up with the upheaval”. at www.salisburycathedral.org.uk. and Wells Theological College is working with the Diocesan Board of
where I trained for the ministry and Education, churches and agencies in
Two new priests at the cathedral be licensed at where I met my wife Jayne. Salisbury Deanery.
the 10.30am
R esidents of the Close will have a
new vicar at the end of April
when Canon Nigel Davies becomes
Eucharist on
26th April.
“The pastoral aspect of ministry is
what drew me to the priesthood in
Dean Nicholas said: “I am thrilled
that Pete is the cathedral’s first full-
time priest for all the young people
the first place, and it is wonderful
part of the cathedral team. He succeeds who gather in the Close or who
that this will be my primary focus as
the Revd Ian worship here.
He will join the Revd Pete Atkinson, vicar of the Close.”
Woodward,
who in March took up the newly- who retired Pete worked in St Helens in Liverpool “His appointment reflects our
created role of minor canon for last year. Diocese before coming to Salisbury, determination to care better for
young people. an area he knows well, having grown them.”
Nigel trained as
Nigel, who comes to Salisbury after up in and around Southampton. Pete said: “I am delighted to have
a teacher in The Revd Nigel Davies,
nearly 12 years as team rector of Lancaster and who is to be Vicar of He trained for ordination at Trinity been appointed to this pioneering
Kendal Deanery’s Beacon Team, will taught for seven the Close. College, Bristol, moving to the role.”
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Refectory talk “He encountered a great deal of He gave a fundraising concert for the
prejudice,” Ms Hogg explained, “as hospital chapel in 1749, three weeks
C omposer George Frideric
Handel’s links with the Foundling
Hospital in London and Salisbury
many people felt it would encourage
irresponsible behaviour on the part
after his first visit.
“It was such a success, he came back
Cathedral Close were explored in a of the mothers.” the following year and performed
talk by Katharine Hogg in January. After 17 ladies agreed to support The Messiah – that concert was so
him, official approval was obtained oversubscribed, a constable had to
More than 70 Friends braved a cold
and the money raised to buy the site attend to keep out gate-crashers and
and wet evening to hear Ms Hogg,
from the Earl of Salisbury in 1740. they had to do a second
librarian of the Foundling Museum’s
performance,” said Ms Hogg.
Gerald Coke Handel Collection, Children, (who were brought to the
speak about the origins of the hospital, not found), moved in in In the summer of 1739 Handel
hospital, the UK’s first children’s 1745. visited his friend James Harris, who
charity and first public art gallery. lived in Malmesbury House in the
“They were given a new name and Cathedral Close.
The institution was established by brought up to be useful – they
Royal Charter in 1739 by Thomas became servants or went into the James’s brother Thomas witnessed
Coram to care for abandoned babies. military,” she said. Handel’s will and another brother,
George, who saw The Messiah George Frideric Handel, who left the score
“Foundlings were taught to read and performed, may have suggested the and parts of The Messiah to the Foundling
write and the girls did sewing, and Hospital.
origin of a tradition that remains to
they were trained in choral singing. this day.
“Is this where the tradition of
“Mothers could leave a token and “George reported that ‘the company standing up for the Hallelujah
come back and ask for their child, stood up’,” said Ms Hogg. Chorus comes from, I wonder?”
but of the 25,000 children taken in
over the 200 years, 200 were
reclaimed.”
Coronavirus
Artist Hogarth, a founding governor,
gave paintings and visitors would At the time of going to print we are concerned about how the spread
come to see the art (there were no of the coronavirus may affect Friends’ events. The health and safety
art galleries then) and give a of our members is our first concern and we will consider each event in
donation. the light of the most up to date advice. Please check our website for
“There was a painting of Moses, the the latest information on all our events and the cathedral website for
first foundling, found in the all services and cathedral events. However, please don’t hesitate to
bulrushes,” she said. continue to book for the Anniversary dinner in July, as we will
guarantee that, in the event of having to cancel, we will give you a
Handel was the other major full refund.
benefactor (there was a foundling
Katharine Hogg, who gave the January talk Thank you for your support.
in the refectory on Handel and the Foundling hospital in Halle where he lived as a
Hospital. boy).20 FRIENDSNEWS FRIENDSNEWS 21
Theatre review Confluence – the 2020 flower with Cathedral
festival Flowers
T he Friends experimented with a
new type of event when they
invited a Sussex-based theatre O ne of the highlights of the
cathedral’s 800th anniversary
administrator
Susan Branch
meet regularly
company to put on a show in the celebrations will be Confluence, the
to plan the
Medieval Hall before Christmas. flower festival, which takes place
festival and will
And judging by the response, with all from Tuesday 15th September to
be holding a
tickets sold, the experiment worked! Sunday 20th September.
series of
This Is My Theatre, a touring The festival will involve more than workshops for
company of five young actors, 300 flower arrangers from all over arrangers.
staged a fast-paced interpretation of the Diocese of Salisbury,
Tickets for the
the Dickens classic A Christmas The theme is movement, reflecting festival are now
The cast of This Is My Theatre’s production
Carol. of A Christmas Carol. From left: Patch the cathedral’s move from Old on sale.
It was adapted for the stage by the Harvey, Jennifer Biggs, Ethan Taylor, Simon Sarum and 800 years of history. This pretty floral display at the entrance to
Stallard and Hannah Baxter-Eve. Little Paradise is a foretaste of what will be
company’s artistic director, Sarah Festival designers Michael Bowyer, on display at Confluence, the flower
Slator and she included plenty of Marley’s ghost, made a scary Pam Lewis and Angela Turner, along festival, which takes place in September.
audience participation in the shape messenger of the doom that lay
of seven carols to sing. ahead if Scrooge did not mend his
Hannah Baxter-Eve, Jennifer Biggs, miserly ways. Cosy coffee mornings continue with the coffee mornings or
Patch Harvey, Simon Stallard and perhaps you would prefer something
Ethan Taylor played the many roles,
requiring speedy costume and
Simon, a talented flautist, was
Scrooge’s timid clerk Bob Cratchit.
His soliloquy to Tiny Tim was deeply
W et and windy weather has
attended our last two cosy
coffee mornings, but this has not
different?
Do let us know and if you would like
character changes. moving. deterred our loyal supporters. to volunteer at our events, please
Ethan was a convincing Scrooge, all get in touch as we always appreciate
Tim was played by Hannah, who also Friends turned out from as far afield
scowls and cries of ‘humbug’, and a helping hand.
narrated much of the story, and as Andover, Fordingbridge and
Patch, playing the chain-rattling Jennifer played so many roles, one Eastleigh as well as from Salisbury
lost count. and the surrounding villages for
It was not just the acting that was coffee and friendship.
top notch, the music making – using We are fortunate in that cathedral
just a flute, recorder and drum – was refectory hospitality manager Sarah
superb. Goodyear allows us to use the Bell
The Medieval Hall, decked out with Tower Tearooms and kind Friends
greenery, made a festive setting for donate cakes and biscuits, as well as
the play and the mulled wine and some of the coffee.
Scrooge, played The ghost of Marley gives apple juice were welcome on such a
by Ethan Taylor, Scrooge a warning.
We’d love to hear from Friends
cold evening. about what type of events you would The Friends’ cosy coffee mornings are a
prepares to meet
the three spirits. Katharine Shearing like us to arrange – should we chance to get together for a chat.22 FRIENDSNEWS FRIENDSNEWS 23
Family Concert – Peter and the Wolf https://www.salisburycathedral.org.
Saturday 13th June 14:00 to 16:00 uk/worship-music-our-organ/2020-
organ-festival
Enjoy this popular children’s story and
watch the music being performed live Organ Prom
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Our hugely popular organ prom
portrayed by the different sounds on
returns this summer, featuring well-
our famous organ.
Salisbury Cathedral known classics from television and
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uk/events/spirit-and-endeavour organ-festivalPALM SUNDAY 5 APRIL
The
The Eucharist
of
Eucharist with
of palms
palms from
with procession
procession
from Choristers’
Choristers’ Green
Green
10:30
10:30 Holy Week
and Easter
Choral Evensong
Choral Evensong 16:30
16:30
MONDAY 6 APRIL
Choral
Choral Evensong
Evensong 17:30
17:30
Compline
Compline sung
Cathedral
sung by
by the
Cathedral Chamber
the
Chamber Choir
Choir
19:30
19:30 at Salisbury
TUESDAY 7 APRIL Cathedral
Choral
Choral Evensong
Evensong 17:30
17:30
Compline
Compline sung
sung by
by the
the Lay
Lay Vicars
Vicars 19:30
19:30
WEDNESDAY 8 APRIL
Choral
Choral Evensong
Evensong 17:30
17:30
Tenebrae:
Tenebrae: A
A Service
Service of
of Shadows
Shadows 19:30
19:30
MAUNDY THURSDAY 9 APRIL
Eucharist
Eucharist of
of the
the Chrism
Chrism and
and 11:00
11:00
Re-affirmation
Re-affirmation of
of Vows
Vows
Choral
Choral Evensong
Evensong 17:30
17:30
Eucharist
Eucharist of
of the
the Last
Last Supper
Supper 19:30
19:30
Watch
Watch of
of the
the Passion
Passion 21:00
21:00
GOOD FRIDAY 10 APRIL
Family
Family Service
Service at
at 9:45
9:45
St
St Thomas’s
Thomas’s Church
Church
Walk
Walk of
of Witness:
Witness: from
from West
West Front
Front 11:00
11:00
(Churches
(Churches Together
Together Salisbury)
Salisbury)
The
The Good
Good Friday
Friday Devotion
Devotion 12:00
12:00
The
The Liturgy
Liturgy of
of Good
Good Friday
Friday 13:30
13:30
HOLY SATURDAY 11 APRIL
Meditation
Meditation and
and prayers
prayers 10:00
10:00
Evening
Evening Prayer
Prayer 16:30
16:30
EASTER SUNDAY 12 APRIL
The
The Easter
Easter Vigil
Vigil Readings
Readings 04:00
04:00
The
The Easter
Easter Liturgy
Liturgy 05:00
05:00
The
The Eucharist
Eucharist with
with blessing
blessing 10:30
10:30
of
of the
the Easter
Easter Garden
Garden
Festal
Festal Evensong
Evensong with
with re-dedication
re-dedication 15:00
15:00
of
of the
the Willis
Willis organ
organ
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